Business Planning: A Guide to Business Start-Up

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Much of the contents of this book are based on empirical experience – been there, done it, got the T-shirt, and learnt by my own mistakes over a fifteen-year period; and so I hope that by passing on this experience, I might save the readers some grief of their own. The book is intended to serve two key purposes, which for many of its target audience, will overlap each other.

First, it is intended as a course textbook for students and candidates who are studying for either the NVQ Level 3 Business Planning, or the Institute of Management Certificate in Management (Business Start-up), which closely follows the content and syllabus of the NVQ. The Vocational Standards for the NVQ Level 3 Business Planning were revised in ...